To Kill A Mocking Bird Analysis Essay

To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis To Kill A Mockingbird, is a coming of age novel which takes place in the southern United States during the Great Depression era. Throughout the book, the mockingbird is told as a harmless creature who should remained unbothered by human interferences because the mockingbird only gave good things to nature and never took away from it. The mockingbird represents someone, or something that does no harm to others but is only there to exist. In her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Finch, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson as human mockingbirds and therefore symbols of innocence. First, Harper Lee uses Scout Finch as a symbol of a mockingbird which means innocence. Scout says ‘Maybe he
Boo says to Scout, ‘Will you take me home’ , He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark.’ After Boo comes forward as the person who saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell’s attack on their way home from the pageant, Boo asks Scout would she be willing to walk home with him because he is not used to being outside of his home. This clearly shows his innocence because no grown man would ask a nine year old girl to guide him home. Scout says ‘I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle’ (373) This shows that there was hypocrites in Maycomb County and Atticus was correct all along about not judging others for why they do the things they do because in the end Boo did have a very good reason why he did not leave the house after all those years. His point of view was much different than those of Maycomb County. Scout says, ‘Boo had drifted to a corner of the room where he stood with his chin up, peering from a distance at Jem.’(372) At this point of the story, Scout is admiring Boo after he help herself and her brother. As everyone was trying to piece together what happened, Boo stood in the corner innocently without much to say to anyone. This shows that he had little human